2aguy
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I am still disturbed that even the Ted Kennedy case involving Chappaquiddick and Mary Jo Kopechne
was never fully resolved to public satisfaction.
The problem is with our whole justice and legal system that rewards people for lying, taking the
fifth, and exploiting "reasonable doubt". If lawyers fail to use every trick in the book to defend their client,
they can be sued for malpractice. So they have to take advantage of any loophole that could get their client off,
which are used to demand mistrials over any mistake, or it's arguably malpractice.
Well put!!!
Agree on Ted Kennedy 100%, also agree that the rules have created terrible incentives.
I would love a legal system that more effectively prosecuted:
Here is my problem. Every time I say that I'd love to see both sides prosecuted equally, I discover that even the most elegant and well-reasoned jurists lack the required sense of detachment and neutrality. They deploy their admittedly impressive mental acuity to putting the only other side in jail.
- Ted Kennedy for Chappaquiddick.
- Ronald Reagan for Iran-Contra
- Dick Chaney for Valerie Plame
- Bush administration for mishandling war intelligence.
- Donald Trump for Trump University
This leads to the biggest problem of all: a legal system that selectively prosecutes is far more dangerous than Teddy Kennedy.
So I'm with you and I appreciate your post, but I'd went extremely powerful oversight rules to guard against selective prosecution. For instance, all the New York FBI agents who have openly declared antipathy to one candidate or the other should be investigated and removed if it is demonstrated that they are not fulfilling their role as non-partisan investigators.
Are you really that dumb....
Dick Cheney had nothing to do with valerie plame...do you undertand that....Patrick Fitzgerald knew when he started the investigation that the person who pointed out that valerie plame worked for the CIA was Richard Armitage.....and that was it.....he worked for left wing favorite colin powell....but Fitzgerald went on a fishing expedition...
And valerie plame was not an under cover operative at the time, she was working in D.C. and parking in the CIA parking lot.....
you guys are morons....